Can’t we all just get along?

NEW YORK – C-FAM) At a meeting on maternal and child health research in Washington last week, United Nations (UN) staff and abortion advocates told scientists they should “harmonize” their findings or discuss them “in a locked room”so that the press could not report maternal death numbers that conflicted with the ones they use to lobby policy makers and major international donors. Ann Starrs, co-founder and president of the abortion advocacy organization Family Care International (FCI), told a roomful of scientists to “lock all the academics in a black box and have them come out with a consensus set of numbers” or “at least hide that there is disagreement” and “infighting.” FCI is the founder of Women Deliver, which is hosting a massive UN-backed reproductive rights fundraising conference in Washington next week.

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Isn’t that exactly what you do when you want the truth? You split up people and question them separately? I don’t find a number of 343,000 more comforting, but I do find decline hopeful.
“For the first time in decades, researchers are reporting a significant drop worldwide in the number of women dying each year from pregnancy and childbirth, to about 342,900 in 2008 from 526,300 in 1980.” The New York Times, April 13, 2010 source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/health/14births.html